Searching for New Politics [Jacobin]The Democratic Party has a history of throwing up barriers to working-class organization that Bernie Sanders will find hard to overcome. I’m working on an article about the planetary cycle that began in the mid-sixties that reached a critical phase over the past three years. If the pattern of the sixties is any indication, the earth has stopped shaking, and next comes the tsunami.

Back in April, when Hillary Clinton first launched her presidential campaign, New York magazine ran a story with all the comments on Twitter about her strange choice of a logo. But no one mentioned the strange resemblance to a button for Barry Goldwater in 1964. I don’t think it’s a big deal that she was a Goldwater Girl in her teens. But this is just too weird.

CeresWhy We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground, by Bill McKibben [Nation of Change]Physics can impose a bracing clarity on the normally murky world of politics. It can make things simple. Not easy, but simple.
“Bracing clarity” would be Saturn. “Murky” would be Neptune. In mundane astrology, Neptune rules oil, so there’s double symbolism here in not dealing with the reality that continued reliance on fossil fuels is like an alcoholic saying he’ll quit as soon as he finishes the last six-pack. The one he just bought on his way home from the racetrack.

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First-term Democratic Senator Kamala Harris of California, a rising party star and outspoken critic of President Donald Trump's immigration policies, launched her 2020 campaign for the White House on Monday by touting her experience as a prosecutor.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration, where employees are going unpaid amid a partial government shutdown, said on Monday that unscheduled absences among U.S. airport security officers rose to a record 10 percent on Sunday as the shutdown reached its 31st day.

U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani backtracked on Monday from earlier comments that Trump pursued a business deal to erect a tower bearing his name in Moscow throughout 2016, saying his statements "were hypothetical and not based on conversations I had with the President."

The Transportation Security Administration said Monday that unscheduled absences among the more than 50,000 U.S. airport security officers rose to 10 percent on Sunday as the government shutdown continues.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday his proposed immigration deal to end a 30-day partial government shutdown would not lead to amnesty for "Dreamers," but he appeared to signal support for amnesty as part of a broader immigration agreement.

U.S. President Donald Trump pursued a business deal to erect a tower bearing his name in Moscow throughout 2016, his attorney said on Sunday, raising new questions for congressional investigators looking into possible ties between the president and Russia.

U.S. President Donald Trump proposed an immigration deal on Saturday in a bid to end a 29-day partial government shutdown, including temporary protections for "Dreamers" and other immigrants, but Democrats immediately dismissed it.